IPsec Job Trends in the South West

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring IPsec skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 175 226
Rank change year-on-year -2 +51 +51
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 13 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.14% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 1.12% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 28
10th Percentile - £52,854 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £53,384 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £75,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +130.77% -59.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £81,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £85,000 £48,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

IPsec falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 586 445 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.16% 12.29% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 329 252 793
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,370
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.73% +8.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,792 £55,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year -25.83% +10.02% -3.87%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IPsec relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

IPsec job vacancy trend in the South West

IPsec
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IPsec.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IPsec

IPsec
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the South West over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the South West

IPsec
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cornwall - 6 £31,250 - 1
Devon - 3 £32,500 -
Bristol - 3 £53,000 -
Wiltshire -1 1 £47,500 -13.64% 1
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
1 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (69.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (69.23%) DHCP
2 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) LAN
2 9 (69.23%) VLAN
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
3 4 (30.77%) BGP
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (30.77%) EIGRP
3 4 (30.77%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) HSRP
3 4 (30.77%) OSPF
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
1 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 3 (23.08%) Riverbed